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T-DAY AT HAND, HIS DAYS NUMBERED Thanksgiving, tra
ditional turkey day, is at hand but the big gobbler being held by
Charles Wade of G. and W. Poultry iCo. in Dunn doesn’t seem to
realize his days are numbered. Mr. Wade’s company has processed
thousands of turkeys for the Thanksgiving holidays and his staff
today was still busy dressing the big birds til A will form the center
piece for the holiday feast. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart).
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New Ag Secretary
Not A Po lit icon
SALT LAKE CITY, UtaJi (IP) Ezra Taft Benson will
move into the office of secretary of Agriculture vrtth littie
.. A .i politician, but with the benefit of more
two decades of association with the country’s farm
problem^.!
He was appointed yesterday by
President- elect Eisenhower.
As executive secretary of the j
National Council of Fanner Co- i
operatives hom 1939 to 1944, Ben
son picked up an intimate knowl-1
edge of farm problems in all sec- j
tions of the country.
Friends describe the 53-year-old I
•Westerner as mild-mannered but j
dynamic.
One Utah farm leader said Ben- i
son “emphatically does not think!
Mrs. Evans Manager
t Of The Fashion Shop
Twenty years of experience in selling dresses and ac
cessories and in managing dress shops have given Mrs.
Virginia Evans a thorough knowledge of what womeen will
find most attractive in these lines.
This knowledge is reflected in the
array of beautiful frocks to be
found at the newly opened Fashiqn
Shop on North Wilson Avenue, of
which she is manager.
t“Of course,” she admits, "all of
our staple lines are of the nationally
advertised brands, but this is only
common-sense merchandising.” Her
late husband was an advertising
agency executive, and she realizes
the value of advertising.
SIN,CE HIGH SCHOOL
Mrs. Evans has been in this type
Trying To Sell Secrets
Umstead Names
•Taylor As Aide
DURHAM OP) Gov. elect
William B. Umstead today ap
pointed W. Frank Taylor of Golds
boro, former speaker of the State
House of Representatives, as his
legislative counsel.
Taylor has served in the State
Senate and has represented Wayne
county 12 years in the House.
“I am sure that his advice,
_ counsel and experience will be of
W tremendous help to me during the
next General Assembly,” Umstead,
said in announcing the appoint
ment. ii
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i the government should guarantee
a profit to everyone, regardless of
efficiency . . . but he realizes that
j farmers cannot be set aside while
the government guarantees mini
mum wages to labor and subsidies
ito mines and transportation. He
I feels the policy has to be consistent
j and agriculture is justified in ask-
I ing for its share.”
FIRST MORMON
Benson will be the first member
I of the regular Mormon church to
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of business since her graduation
from high school. She has been
in stores in Columbia, S. C., Greens
boro and Smithfield, the latter the
main store owned by L. E. Fer
rell, owner of The Fashion Shop
here.
A native of Four Oaks, while
working in the Smithfield store
she commuted between there and
the nearby Johnston County Seat.
Aiding her in the store here are
Mrs. Joe Wilkins and Mrs. Wilson
Stanley, both Well known in Dunn.
TOKYO (IF An American Air
Force sergeant was held incommuni
cado today on a charge of trying
to sell secret information about the
5-86 Sabrejet fighter to the Com
munists in Korea.
Court martial charges were filed
Nov. 18 against S-Bgt. Giuseppe
Cascia, 34, of Tucson, Ariz., a vet
eran of nine years of service in the
Air Force. *
Cascio’s arrest on Sept. 21 cli
maxed six weeks of work by Air
Force Intellgence officers. It was
the first case of alleged conspira
cy with the enemy by Americans
serving in Korea. * ''
Cascio was specifically accused
of “attempting and conspiring to
sell military intelligence to the
enemy.” Conviction could mean
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George Meany Named AFL President
| Supreme Court
Just Beside
School issue
WASHINGTON (IP) The
I Supreme Court has indicated
i it wants all the help it can
get in deciding whether to
outlaw racial segregation in
public schools.
Monday the high bench accepted
a fifth case dealing with the issue,
this time from Delaware Negro
parents have been successful in
state courts in a challenge to Del
aware’s segregation practices
They obtained orders requiring im
mediate admission of their chil
dren to Claymont High School
heretofore attended only by white
children, and to a white elemen
tary school in Hockessin. State au
thorities appealed.
TO BE AROUND DEC. 8
The case, and others dealing
with segregation inn Kansas. Vir
ginia, South Carolina and the Dis
trict of Columbia, will be argue?
before the court during the week
of Dec. 8. The four cases already
on the docket were all decided by
federal courts and were lost by
the Negro complaints.
In addition, the court Monday
took the unusual step of formally
asking Kansas to step up and pre
sent its views as to the constitu
tionality of the state’s segregation
law. The statute does not requirr
separate schools for Negroes and
whites but permits them in large
cities. The Kansas case originated
in Topeka.
Three Hurt In
Two-Car Crash
Three persons were hospitalized
during the weekend at Lee County
1 Hospital in .Sanford following a
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ion NC 87 eight miles South of
Sanford near the Lee-Hamett
county line.
| Patrolman R. B. Leonard said a
. 1952 Pontiac, going South and
; driven by George A. Dippolito, 22
1 of Ft. Bragg hit a 1947 Studebaker
j travelling in the opposite direction.
The driver of the Studebaker was
| Eugene C. Wright of Olivia, also
I a serviceman.
j Wright suffered cuts on the face
[ and bruises. Betty Jean Wright, 22,
passenger in the same car, was cut
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Ballentine To
Speak In Dunn
Commissioner of Agriculture L.
Y. Ballentine will speak in Dunn
on December 8, to a group composed
of eptton ginners and cotton pro
ducers from four counties in this
area, it was announced today by
Clifford Hardy, executive-secretary
of the Carolina Ginners’ Association.
•MARKETS*
EGGS AND POULTRY
RALEIGH (IF Central North
Carolina live poultry: Fryers or
broilers steady, supplies light to
moderate but adequate for fair de
mand. Heavy hens steady, supplies
adequate to plentiful. Prices at
farm up to 10 a. m. today: Fryers
or broilers 2 1-2-3 lbs 32. Heavy
hens 24-26.
Eggs: Receipts about adequate,
demand good. Prices paid produc
ers and handlers fob local grad
ing stations: A large 62, A medium
and B large 51-52.
Mellons’ Staff
To Hear Goorch
Carl Goerch, popular Raleigh,
radio commentator, will address j
employees of Wfillons Candy Com- i
pany at their annual Christmas j
banquet here on Friday night,
December 19th.
Plans for the event, which will
be attended by the company’s 250
employees and a number of special
guests, were announced today by
BHI Marshbum, sales manager, who
Is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Marshbum will also serve as
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DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 25. 1952
WOMAN ACQUITED IN SLAYING OF HUSBAND—EuIa Mae Brown, 30-vear-old Dunn Negro woman,
is shown here as she was questioned last night by Policeman Aaron Johnson in the slaying of her hus
band. She said she shot him accidentally after he advanced on her with a knife. A coroner’s jury aequited
her of blame. Beside the woman is her brother. (Daily Record Photo).
Negro Woman Kills Husband
Zollie Brown, 38-year-old
Negro plumber’s helper, was
shot to death early last
night by his wife as he was
advancing on her with an o
pen knife.
A jury impaneled by Coroner
Grover C. Henderson heard the
testimony of several witnesses and
ruled) ttyat the shooting was acci
dental.
Tie slaying occurred sb-wtly
' before six o'clock at the couple’s
home on North Fayetteville Avenue
and climaxed Weeks of domestic
difficulty between them.
Eula Mae Brown, about 30,
testified at the inquest conducted
at Payton’s Funeral Home that her
husband had been cursing and
abusing her and started toward her
with an open knife, threatening to
kill her.
DAUGHTER HANDED GUN
She said their 11-year-old daugh
ter, Beulah Mae Brown, pushed
her out the kitchen door and hand
ed her the .32 calibre pistol to pro
tect herself.
The mother said that she didn’t
want the pistol and was handing
it back to her daughter when it
went off. The load struck Brown
in the left chest and he fell to the
ground mortally wounded.
The woman said she couldn’t re
member pulling the trigger and
had no intentions of killing her
husband.
Policeman Aaron Johnson testi
fied that the woman was hysterical
when he arrived on the scene. He
said he found the gun under the
tree, where she told him she threw
it, and that he found the open knife
beside the dead man’s body.
STORY VERIFIED
The daughter testified and cor
roborated her mother’s story. There
were no other eye witnesses.
Alice Melvin, a neighbor, testi
fied that just before the shooting
the couple’s six-year-old son, Lar
ry, ran over to her house and told
her his daddy was trying to cut
his mother. Shortly afterwards, she
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BIJIIETIXS
WASHINGTON (IP): The White House said that Mrs. David
H. Wallace, President Truman’s 90-year-old mother-in-law
remained in a critical condition today. Maj. Gen. Wallace
H. Graham, Mr. Truman’s personal physician, said there
was no change from yesterday. Mrs. Wallace suffered a
stroke last Saturday.
HANOI. Indo-China (IP) French forces turned the
massed fire-power of their land and air forces against
25.000 Communist Viet Minh troops who were grouping
today for a second and more powerful attack on the last
ditch French stronghold at Nasan.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (IP) Hungary demanded the
j immediate recall of the ranking Yugoslav diplomat in Bud
i apest today, accusing him of using his legation as a “spy
| ing center.?’
COMOX, B. C. (IP) Eight Canadian airmen were kil
led last night when a Lancaster bomber under shot the
runway at this coastaß air base and crashed into a swamp.
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, 111. (IP) _ Jet ace Maj.
James Jabara, with six Russian-built MIGs to his credit,
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U. S. Super forts
Blast Supply Depot
SEOUL, Korea (IP 1 —Okinawa based American super
fortresses blastema CrrJnaun’ pbpp yit >ot a" Hoeo lan ;
aA iritis K*'ano Austialiah soldiers hai'v.seu Chi
nese outposts on the western front with commando-like
raids.
Bad weather, which stalled Allied
war plane missions yesterday,
cleared slightly today and fighter
bombers hit road and rail supply
lines and enemy line positions.
The 12 superfortresses took off
from Okinawa and dropped 500
pound bombs through a solid over
cast before dawn today to wreck
the 18-acre Red supply depot east
of Pyongyang.
B-26 raiders bombed two bridges, 1
Bullet-Proof Guard
Os Ike Is Arranged
.... SEOUL, Korea (IP) —U. N. Commander Gen. Mark
Clark flew back to Tokyo today after making “concrete”
arrangements to safeguard Dwight D. Eisenhower during
the President-elect’s forthcoming visit to Korea.
Clark spent 24 hours in Korea in
secret conferences with Gen.
James A. Van Fleet, Eighth Army
commander, and Lt. Gen Glenn
O. Barcus, Fifth Air Force com
mander, the two men whose re
sponsibility it will be to see that
Eisenhower has “bullet-proof pro
tection.”
“We naturally discussed plans
for General Eisenhower’s visit,”
Clark said at an air base near
Seoul.
over which Red supply and ammu
nition convoys moved and de
stroyed 85 trucks. Clouds hampered
these operations also.
On the ground raiders from the
Royal Fusiliers and the Royal
Austrailian Regiment smashed
through Chinese lines overlooking
the Sami River Valley east of
Yonchsn shortly after midnight
10 a m. Mon. and captured an
outpost.
: 1 “Concrete arrangements have
. been made, you bet your life. We
■; are all set to take care of it.
“That’s all I can sav,” Clark
said.
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HARNETT SCOUT LEADERS I— The annual meeting of the Harnett County Boy Scout District was
held last night at Buie’s Creek, pictured here are some of the leaders. Left to right are, seated. A. R.
Marley, Erwin, retiring commissioner; Glenn L. Hooper. Jr. of Dunn, new county chairman; John
Follett, Buie’s Creek, new commistioner; standing. Scout Executive Spurgeon Gaskins, Raleigh; Retiring
Chairman Waite Howard of Doip; and Norman Suttles of Dunn. (Daily Record Photo <<yT.IL
Stewart).
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Election Made
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Officials Tsdav
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WASHINGTON i(P
George Meanv, 58-year-old
one-time plumber, today was
unanimously chosen new
president of the American
Federation of Labor.
Meany. who has served as AFL
.secretary-treasurer, was named by
12 top AFL officials to succeed j
William F. Green who died of a
heart attack last Friday.
He immediately issued a new call
to the rival CIO for labor unity.
Meany will serve as AFL presi- i
dent through 1953. He will corny
up for re-election at the next AFL '
convention in September. 1953. j
Convention delegates are consider- :
ed certain to approve today's ac- : '
tion.
SECRETARY 12 YEARS ; j
Meany has been secretary-treas- j
urer for the past 12 years. Because
of Green's illness, he was in
virtual charge of the AFL for the
past few years.
The AFL executive council also
unanimously elected William F.
Schnitzler of the bakery workers i
union to take over Meany’s secre-{
tary-treasurer post Jan. 1.
At a news conference after his
election. Meany said the AFL is
“ready, willing and anxious to talk :
to the CIO” about labor unity. j
He said the AFL will "reacti- !
vate" its labor unity committee
with plans to resume negotiations
with the CIO toward forming one
big labor organization.
KILLED IN ACTION
The War Department lias no
tified the family of Private
Theodore R. Hodges of Spring 1
Lake that the youth, formerly re- (
ported missing in action in Ko- |
rea has been killed in action.
Hooper Witt Head
Harnett's Scouts
Glenn L. Hooper, Jr. of Dunn was inducted as district
chairman and John D. Follett of Buie’s Creek as district
commissioner at the annual meeting of Harnett County
District. Occoneechee Council, Boy Scouts of America in
Buie’s Creek last night. Rev. W. Robert Insko of Erwin
made the principal address.
Waite W. Howard, retiring dis
trict chairman, acted as toast
master at the dinner, attended by
about 50 scouters and their wives
Out of county guests included
Spurgeon Gaskin, scout executive
of the council, who inducted the {
new officers, and J. B. Brookshire, j
field executive directly responsible
for work in the county.
, Opening and closing ceremonies I
were in charge of members of j
Troop 84, Erwin, under the direc- j
tion of Joe Johnson, neighborhood i
commissioner of that town. A i
quartet led by David Smith, musical !
director of Campbell College en- j
'tertained the guests.
VETERANS HONORED
Norman Suttles of Dunn pre- j
sented veteran stars to scouters; j
The
Daily Record
Gefs Results
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KIF. HUDSO
Hudson Given
National Post
Kie Hudson, popular Past Com
mander of the Dunn Post of the
American Legion, has been ap
pointed to the National Member
ship and Post Activities Committee
of the American Legion as a Gen
eral Member.
The appointment was made on
the recommendation of the Depart
ment of North Carolina and the
approval of the National Executive
Committee in recognition of his
outstanding work in the member
ship drive of the past two years
as chairman of the membership
drive of the past two years as
chairman of the membership com
mittee of the local oost.
Last year a total of 274 members
were added to the Dunn Post and
thus far this year there have been
150 new members. The quota for
this year is 292.
Hudson was commander of the
I Dunn Post two years ago and
i when he completed this tour of
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John D. Follett for 30 years of ser
vice, Suttles. himself, for 20, Insko
for 18, Joe Johnson for 10, Bill
Sewell for 8.
The new commissioner and the
retiring commissioner, A. R. Marley
of Erwin made short reports on the
work completed last year.
INSKO SPEAKS
Insko, rector of St. Stephen’s
Episcopal Church, Erwin. Eagle
Scout, and scoutmaster of Troop
84. which is sponsored by the
church, spoke on “The Boy Scouts
of America and Moral and Spiri
tual Values.”
“Whose business is it to shoulder
the terrific responsibility for moral
and spiritual development of our
children? The scout program as a
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